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  • Innovation accelerated

    Sep 14, 2020 2:30 pm

    How Grainger engineers—and medical professionals, manufacturing experts, animal scientists, and designers from around Champaign-Urbana—brought a COVID-stricken world an emergency ventilator in less than two weeks.

  • Donald J. Wuebbles, the Harry E. Preble Endowed Professor of Atmospheric Science,

    Translating the science of climate change into solutions

    Nov 1, 2021 11:30 am

    Don Wuebbles, a world-renowned atmospheric scientist and science communicator, has no patience for those unwilling to accept the gravity of the situation. 'To call it global warming is really just not representing the science correctly.'

  • street flooding at 71st and Michigan on Chicago's south side

    Weathering the Storms

    Nov 5, 2018 2:30 pm

    How one team of Illinois researchers is addressing urban flooding.

  • Professor Leon Dash sits in his office

    Reporting with an anthropologist's eye

    Mar 25, 2022 10:45 am

    Pulitzer Prize-winning journalism professor Leon Dash talks about what inspired his life's work and answers the Proust Questionnaire.

  • dramatic green colors of a moth sitting on a fern

    Curious Encounters with the Natural World

    Apr 22, 2019 11:15 am

    'We are not photographic trophy hunters, seeking to make each and every image that perfect portrait, but biologists who seek to capture the little windows of time that show nature as it is.'

  • Max Levchin. Photo courtesy of Affirm

    Maxium Impact

    May 30, 2018 11:15 am

    Illinois alumnus Max Levchin on lessons from his grandmother, late nights at DCL, and building businesses with integrity

  • STORIED.

    Oct 18, 2018 9:00 am

    On the hundredth anniversary of this difficult autumn, we look back at a campus that prepared soldiers for war, tended to the sick, and came together in a spirit of selflessness and compassion that was the hallmark of some of our earliest Illini.

  • two young men look at pepper plants in an urban, raised-bed garden plot

    Farming in the Windy City

    Apr 1, 2020 11:00 am

    From rooftops to abandoned lots, urban gardening in Chicago is thriving.

  • Music Man: Dr. Claudius Conrad of the Carle Illinois College of Medicine

    May 2, 2025 3:30 pm

    As a teenager, Conrad grew more proficient at the piano and showed brilliance in understanding the medicine he was seeing his father practice. He started to lay the groundwork for what would become a momentous career.